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More on Fibre and Disease

Dietary fibre is defined as the non-digestible carbohydrate portion of a plant that is subsequently able to be fermented in the colon by microorganisms. There are many types of dietary fibre (cellulose, pectin, lignin, oligosaccharides, resistant starches, hydrocolloids and alcohol … Continue reading

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